Word: technician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mordechai Vanunu is under lawful detention in Israel." With that, the Jerusalem government last week cleared up some of the mystery surrounding the nuclear technician who turned Israeli atomic secrets over to a London newspaper and then vanished. But the question remained: How had the Israelis managed to get their hands...
Eric Roberts is superb as the unbalanced amorous technician. "I'm not a very secure citizen," Riley confesses, as if anyone needed to ask. Riley blunders, rages and loves his way into Cassie's life, mirroring Cassie's insecurity with his own lifetime of self-doubt. "You'll never do anything worse than I have done," says Riley, to reassure Cassie. Together, Roberts and Arquette's romantic stumblings make Fool a enjoyable, user-friendly film...
...been a year of jolting change for Mordechai Vanunu. Until last November he had worked as a technician in Israel's top-secret nuclear research center at Dimona in the Negev desert. Then Vanunu, 32, was dismissed from his job, ostensibly as part of a government cost-cutting move. He left Israel last spring on a vacation trip that took him to Greece, Bangkok and finally Sydney, Australia, where he reportedly converted to Christianity. Then he and a shadowy Colombian journalist hit upon a plan: they would sell Vanunu's inside account of Israel's nuclear defense program, never before...
...Sunday Times, which had been badly stung by publishing the faked Hitler diaries in 1983, treated Vanunu's account with caution. The paper flew the former technician to London, where he was debriefed for two weeks by a team of reporters and scientists. Before publishing, the newspaper also invited comment from Israeli government officials. They declined -- and quickly ordered up a search for the Times's talkative source...
...longer would xerox machines run out of change and stand idle until a technician arrives to add nickels. And since we wouldn't have to keep dumping coins into the machines between copies, we could all xerox about twice as fast. That's a real savings...